Design Leadership · Product Management · Product Design

AI without intent produces generic product solutions.

I lead products with intentionality from problem statement through design, development and release, pairing a framework I built with whichever AI models fit the work. I keep refining until the product serves the people who use it.

01Where intent comes from

Intent comes from knowing the systems of relationships a product serves to shape context.

Every product sits inside a set of relationships: the person who uses it and the need they bring, the team that designs and builds it, and the company that makes it and expects a return. Each relationship adds its own expectations and limits. Knowing how they connect tells a team what the product is for, and that knowledge becomes the context everything else is built from.

Where intent comes from

Relationships shape the context a product is built in

The user’s systemEvery exchangeOne intent

02How it works

One loop runs the product, from the first signal to the next release.

Design and product management work the same loop from two sides. The weight loss app from section 01 shows it on one feature: people stop logging their meals.

  1. 01 · Input

    A signal arrives

    Usage data shows people stop logging meals after two weeks.

  2. 02 · Contextualization

    The problem gets its context

    Research finds people log at mealtimes, when they are busiest.

  3. 03 · Configure

    A response is shaped to fit

    Design and product weigh options against effort and cost: meal reminders with one-tap logging.

  4. 04 · Output

    It ships, and becomes the next input

    The release goes out, and the logging rate is the next signal.

Governance · product management

Sets the scope, the gates between steps and the timing, so the loop keeps moving.

See the same loop across a whole company →
03The work

Products taken from a request to release, each shown by the role I played.

01

Adaptive study platform for firefighters

An AI study tool taken from concept to launch on my own: research, design, build and testing. It adapts to what each learner already knows.

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7firefighters using itWalkthrough on request
02

Design Operations Management Tool

An agentic tool that scopes incoming requests, predicts delivery timelines against a team’s real skills and recommends who to pair on the work.

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03

Standard configuration and display controller, MurCal

Owned UX and UI end to end as product designer and product manager, with roadmaps, PRDs, launches and a team of two developers.

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04

Bazooka Farmstar display interfaces and job management tool

Designed the display interfaces for MurCal’s client Bazooka Farmstar. On-site research with its customers in the field found usability fixes and a new product they asked for: a job management tool using engine and fertilizer-flow data, planned alongside the interface improvements.

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05

Pre-employment onboarding tracker

A four-person intern team built one dashboard for pre-employment onboarding, from contingent offer to ready to start. One of six projects from an internship program I led for four years.

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12 weeksfrom kickoff to hand-offCase study →
06

Salary benchmarking tool

A four-person intern team designed a salary benchmarking tool for the product’s compensation module, cut to what its market data could support. One of six projects from an internship program I led for four years.

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13test sessionsCase study →
04AI in product design and product management

AI brings designers into every stage of building the product.

I prototype with AI inside the product loop. Each of the three changes here has a place in the loop above.

  1. 01

    Designers prototype in the real product.

    Working prototypes on the team’s own design system let designers test real interactions with people and hand developers something that already works.

  2. 02

    Design decisions travel as context.

    Research, requirements and design rules become the context AI tools work from, so the design intent reaches development and testing.

  3. 03

    Designers stay in the loop through release.

    With AI checking builds against the design system, designers can review fit all the way to release.

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Products that last are built by people who understand the system they ship into.

I lead product design and product management from the first conversation to release.